indeterminist

Popper, then, is an historical indeterminist, insofar as he holds that history does not evolve in accordance with intrinsic laws or principles, that in the absence of such laws and principles unconditional prediction in the social sciences is an impossibility, and that there is no such thing as historical necessity.

Karl Popper Thornton, Stephen 2009

Bryars is famous in the musical avant garde for his minimalist and indeterminist compositions, particularly the haunting The Sinking of the Titanic and the poignant Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet.

A seat on the churchyard cliff Arbogast 2008

We may distinguish two broad families of ˜incompatibilist™ or ˜indeterminist™ self-determination accounts.

Free Will O'Connor, Timothy 2005

For the indeterminist there is at all times enough past for all the different futures in sight, and more besides, to find their reasons in it, and whichever future comes will slide out of that past as easily as the train slides by the switch.

Meaning of Truth William James 1876

The moments of bifurcation, as the indeterminist seems to himself to experience them, are moments both of re-direction and of continuation.

Meaning of Truth William James 1876

The chaplet of my days tumbles into a cast of disconnected beads as soon as the thread of inner necessity is drawn out by the preposterous indeterminist doctrine.

Pragmatism William James 1876

Keathley, a classical Molinist (and indeterminist), presented the case that determinism is to a bad theological position to hold.

Provocations & Pantings 2008

In his 1958 essay, “Metaphysics and Criticizability,” he writes “I am first of all an indeterminist, secondly a realist, thirdly a rationalist … I gladly admit – with Kant and other critical rationalists – that we cannot possess anything like full knowledge of the real world with its infinite richness and beauty.

Contemporary Mythologies 2009

a murder, [12] and so forth, through various suppositions that no indeterminist ever sees real reason to make.

A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy William James 1876